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Nothing Personal. In this atmosphere, Daily Editor Gary Althen, 21, this fall allowed Carl Mitcham, 26, a late-blooming philosophy student, to publish a polemic calling Goldwater "a fool, a mountebank, a murderer, no better than a common criminal." Campus conservatives informed Goldwater. President Newton apologized. Unsatisfied, Goldwater wrote a stinging reply: "You either do not know what is going on in the university, or you don't care, and in charity I will presume the former. To put it briefly, I doubt that you have the interest or the concern to be in the position you hold...
...this point, Daily Editor Althen allowed Student Mitcham to publish another article that called Dwight Eisenhower an "old futzer." Haled before the university discipline committee, Mitcham was not even remotely chastised. Instead the committee upheld his right to express "a philosophical point of view," and ruled that the Goldwater article "could not be considered a personal attack...
...Mitcham then followed his article with a letter written to explain his comments. He attacked Goldwater again and referred to former President Dwight D. Eisenhower as "a lapdog. . .an old futser...
Editor Gary Althen had been removed from his position on the student paper, but not expelled from the University, for printing an article and letter by Carl Mitcham, a self-styled "anarchist" and Colorado senior, who is not on the paper's staff...
...decision had come after three weeks of controversy following the printing of an article written by Mitcham in the Gadfly, a weekly opinion supplement to the Daily, on Sept. 21. Commenting on United States polities, Mitcham, a philosophy major, had attacked Sen. Barry Goldwater as a "fool, a mountebank, a murderer, no better than a common criminal...